BAKU, Azerbaijan — Splintered and rudderless after developing nations rejected what they called too little money to deal with climate change, United Nations talks dissolved into factions Saturday.
As workers began to dismantle the furnishings of the climate conference called COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, negotiators went from one big room where everyone tried to hash out a deal together into several separate huddles of upset nations. Hallway talk oscillated between hope for shuttle diplomacy to bridge the gap and kicking the can down the road to sometime next year. Negotiators and analysts had mostly given up hope that the host presidency would get the job done.
It’s a fight about big money, but the question dividing them is: Is it big enough?
DEAL STILL ELUSIVE
Developing nations and United Nations reports say there’s a need for $1.3 trillion to help adapt to droughts, floods, rising seas and extreme heat, pay for losses and …